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Pitt Falling Apart, Brick by Brick

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So whose walk in the black forest appears the most ominous at this exact moment; who has it worst: Pitt's alleged basketballing Panthers, Pittsburgh hockey-balling Penguins, or yer Stillers?

Who is deepest in the psychological muck?

Hard to say, but at least the Steelers are done.

For the others, the beatings will apparently continue until morale improves.

Tuesday night in the sleepy Oakland Zoo, the Panthers played good defense. And when the Panthers had the ball, they played great defense.

Five seconds after the final horn, a quick-witted video display operator wiped all evidence of the final score of the Pitt-Rutgers game from every last bulb in the Petersen Events Center.

If anyone wondered what had just happened, they were no longer...

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